Black Friday Horror Stories

[millie_dillmount]

Black Friday Horror Stories#1

Posted: 11/25/06 at 9:25am

Yes I was one of the idiots who got up super-early and was out the house by 5:30 am. I went to Target. The Target near my area had two doorways. There was a whole line of hundreds of people by the door on the right. There was also a stray crowd of people just hanging around closer to the door on the left. People from the line yelled "Get in line!" No one in the crowd listened. So Target decides to open the entrance on the left. The stray crowd runs up to the door. The people in the line get mad and start yelling and running into the store. I kind of just blended myself in with the crowd up front and walked (yes walked, I'm so proud of myself) into the store while people around me were running like crazy. By the time I got to the back of the store, people's carts were full of toys, electronics, etc. On the way, a lady almost hit me with her cart.

Then at Circuit City, there was a problem with the register and I ended up waiting in line for an hour (but hey it was worth it, for the Little Mermaid). They need to learn how to handle problems better...I don't see why it took an hour for them to figure it out, but whatever.

In the end, I walked out of the stores with 2 cheaper seasons of Gilmore Girls, a cheap The Little Mermaid, a cheap Walk the Line, and some $4 DVDs: Spiderman 2, The Notebook, March of the Penguins, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Fun With Dick and Jane.

Does anyone have any Black Friday horror stories?

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

Updated On: 11/25/06 at 09:25 AM

[spiderdj82]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#1

Posted: 11/25/06 at 9:50am

I went yesterday, but in the late afternoon/early evening. There was a crowd, but I don't think I stood in line for more that 10 minutes.

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

[JerseyGirl2]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#2

Posted: 11/25/06 at 2:41pm

I hit Wal-mart, Target, PetSmart, Petco and the Dollar Tree. (No deals at the Dollar Tree, I just needed punching balloons for work.) Wal-mart was a walk in the park. I got a 1GB SD card for my camera or GPS for $13. Target was pretty nightmarish, but I needed pet stuff and none of that was on sale. I got a hot pink doggie carrier, a brush, a pink princess two bowl feeder and a purple rubber Isaac Mizrahi high heel chew toy. TOO cute. The pet stores were tame(heh heh.) I got a puppy diaper, calming treats and a few toys. The Dollar Tree was the WORST. They only had two registers open and the one I was on line for kept needing manager overrides. I mean, c'mon. Everything in there is a buck. How hard can it be? I ended up leaving.

Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!

[Mr Roxy]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#3

Posted: 11/25/06 at 2:43pm

Isn't the spirit of Christmas a beautiful thing ?

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[iHeartMyGeek]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#4

Posted: 11/25/06 at 2:46pm

I'm usually out with my family by 4:30 AM but yesterrday my dad and I slept in and didn't meet my aunt until about 8:30 (she had been out since about 5). Last year, it was absolutely frigid outside Target. One year, two years ago, I got so sick between it being cold outside and way too hot in the store that I threw up in the Kohl's parking lot. I still had so much fun, all four years I've done it. I don't usually buy anything, though. Yesterday, we didn't buy much, but my dad finally got me my birthday present--I know you all will be so excited, because I finally got a digital camera, which means I can change my avatar.

"I can't figure out what kind of life this is, comedy or tragedy, I just know it's showbiz. And what if I don't agree with the lines I have to read? They don't pay me enough, the way I see it."

[ashley0139]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#5

Posted: 11/25/06 at 3:41pm

In the end, I walked out of the stores with 2 cheaper seasons of Gilmore Girls

I heard they were selling these at Target for $16. Boy, was I mad.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[singtopher]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#6

Posted: 11/25/06 at 3:44pm

I was one of those idiots who was up at 3:45 am to open the store for all of the door busters.

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

[AbbaRabbit]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#7

Posted: 11/25/06 at 5:06pm

i went to walmart with my dad to buy some car-washing stuff... it wasn't too bad. the toy department was a mess but the auto care place wasn't crowded. also went to a toy store and it was very crowded. i got what i needed and left.
didn't even attemt the mall.
we went to old navy and petsmart and both those were ok. picked up a performence fleece pullover for my dad for $10. got some dog toys and greenies at petsmart and dropped off a bag of baby receiving blankets for the cat shelter they have there and played with a cat named tinker <3

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[Becky2]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#8

Posted: 11/25/06 at 8:11pm

I've only gone out on Black Friday once about two years ago to Younkers. It actually wasn't too bad, but I'll probably never do it again.

I work at Guitar Center and was lucky to have had the day off yesterday. On a normal weekday, we usually have about 80-120 people come through. But Friday they had over 900... And the computers went down...

[iHeartMyGeek]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#9

Posted: 11/25/06 at 8:15pm

The mall was actually not bad at all. It wasn't as bad as any of the other places. I remmeber going to Toys 'R' Us last year and there was literally a line from the fron tof hte store to the very back. We stood in line for forty-five minutes.

"I can't figure out what kind of life this is, comedy or tragedy, I just know it's showbiz. And what if I don't agree with the lines I have to read? They don't pay me enough, the way I see it."

[AbbaRabbit]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#10

Posted: 11/25/06 at 8:19pm

my brother works at staples. they wanted him to open at 4:30. he declined.

Less is more
Ugly is beautiful
"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp

"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo

"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK

[chinkie azn jai]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#11

Posted: 11/26/06 at 1:19am

Comp USA had a huge sale at 9:00PM on Thanksgiving day. So, my dad, brother, cousins, uncle, my cousin's boyfriend, and I got there at 8:40PM and the line looked like 1/4 of a mile...it was crazy. So my dad and brother stood at the back of the line, and the rest of us decided we weren't going to stay, so we just went back to the car at the front of the store. However, my cousin wanted to stay and watch the mad rush of people when the store opened, so we waited. When the door opened, the crowd went in slowly, then picked up speed, then it was every man for himself. hah When it got crazy and it didn't matter if you were in line or not, my cousin wanted to join in for the fun of it and got me in it to (I wanted the adrenaline run ). When we got in, displays already fell down, there was NO place to walk, and a lot of people pushed to the floor. When we were in the mob of people outside a stock window for the external harddrives (what we came for), we somehow met my dad there (we have no idea how he got there from the back of the long line). He got two of the hard drives and waited in line for two hours with my brother (one per person) while the rest of us went home. The ironic part is that when they got to the cashier (two hours later), they were told that the hard drives were not on sale that day but the next day. Basically, two hours for nothing.

The stupid part is that the store was handing them out like hot cakes to a huge mob of people...not even saying they were not on sale that day.

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[YouWantitWhen????]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#12

Posted: 11/26/06 at 1:24am

Sometimes being a corporate whore and being able to pay a little more than the cheapest possible price on earth ever for a gift is priceless.

Now I know why I get up and go to work in the mornings, so I can sleep until 10:00 on Black Friday and not give a rats ass.

I most often give gift certificates for big gifts anyways, so it really does not matter that much - for others, I back cookies and ship them.

For those who braved the malls on Friday, bless you all and I hope you recover in due course.

[DramaDork925]

re: Black Friday Horror Stories#13

Posted: 11/26/06 at 11:13am

I worked for 7 hours at Old Navy... I swear, put 30$ cashmere in front of women and you got yourself a smackdown.

Am I cut out to spend my time this way?